Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...M.I.T. professor who wanted to study a kind of high-flying cloud argued that Norway was the only place he could do it and got a subsidy from NASA. Living with his wife and young daughter in a cottage near Oslo, Geophysicist Giorgio Fiocco, 35, spends sporting days paddling a canoe around the fiord and scientific nights examining "noctilucent" clouds by laser radar. Yale Physiologist Jose Delgado, 50, the man who can make bulls stop charging by planting electrodes in their brains, is off to Moscow, a favored academic watering hole, for a psychology conference...
...home, Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, 57, reports that he is dutifully turning out a new book "one dreary page after another." University of Virginia Professor J. D. Forbes, 56, a specialist in business history, is flying kites and writing detective stories while on a visit to his married daughter in California. So long as they are encouraged, even pressured, to fly jets, it seems likely that fewer and fewer faculty members will get to fly kites in the future...
Welthy* Fisher first went to Asia 60 years ago. The daughter of a Rome, N.Y., Methodist businessman, she took a job as headmistress of a missionary school for girls in Nanchang, China. When she was 43, she married the Methodist Bishop of India and Burma, Frederick Fisher, and through him came to know Mohandas Gandhi. She first met the Mahatma in 1926, sat with him for five hours while he meditated. Years after she was widowed and just before his own death, Gandhi urged her to go to work in India's villages...
...poor fellah's daughter who started out posing as a boy-because proper Arab girls did not then perform in public-Um Kalthoum as a child often sang Koranic songs for five or ten hours at a stretch. Her pay: 1$ per performance. At 15, she bought her first dress, later switched from religious to romantic songs, and instantly became a Pan-Arabic institution. King Farouk awarded her Egypt's highest civilian decoration, and she reciprocated by singing political songs, first, Farouk, May You Live Forever and later, for Nasser, Gamal and the Nile Are Creators...
Born. To Maria Schell, 40, Viennese movie star (End of Desire), and Veil Relin, 39, director of a Viennese avant-garde theater: their first child, a daughter; about a month ago in Munich. Her pressagent says they plan to marry as soon as possible...